I have worked in the fields of mental health, addictions, and parenting for over 25 years. I enjoy helping people with depression, anxiety, and addictions turn their lives around using Cognitive Therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, and Parent Coaching.

I empower parents to manage their parenting challenges using Respect, Empathy, Appreciation, and Love (REAL Parenting). I offer parent coaching and 5 parenting classes: Becoming a Love and Logic Parent, Love and Logic Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun! Creating Happy Families and Responsible Kids, REAL Parenting, Active Parenting for Stepfamilies in 3, and Siblings Without Rivalry. I teach parenting classes fall, winter, spring, and summer. For parenting classes/coaching, see www.REALparenting.net.

I hold a Masters in Counseling Psychology and am a certified Gestalt Equine Assisted Psychotherapist. During the therapy session you partner with horses to have an experience in the present moment. It is my belief that building a relationship with a horse will deepen your relationship with your self, others and with nature. Horses are sensitive, intuitive, social beings, who help to illuminate our patterns of relationship and behaviors by giving us immediate feedback. Through relationship, they offer the opportunity to learn, grow and heal.

I support individuals, couples, families and groups who struggle with grief, trauma, relationship challenges, personal growth, life transitions, communication, addiction and/or attachment.

What do you want to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver

Licensed Psychotherapist (LPC) since 1999, Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) since 2000, and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist(CHt) since 2008. Warm, collaborative, strength-focused style. Sees individual and couples (of all sexual orientations), adults and mature adolescents. Offering understanding of cultural/ethnic diversity, including bi-racial and multi-cultural relationships. Addressing such issues as grief, transitions, communication, relationships, depression, anxiety, stress, work and career, co-dependence, dysfunctional patterns, illness, deepening life satisfaction and fulfillment. Some of the tools used are CBT, Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and Imago Therapy (for couples). In most major insurance and EAP networks and offer sliding scale fees as needed.

Hijacked by the insane push towards success, productivity and independence, at an early age most of us bury our uniqueness and the sanctuary in which we develop it in favor of honoring the sacrificial role society wants from us. As a result, we end up living divided lives where the distance between the life we want and the one we are living is miles apart. We end up, in effect, estranged from our souls.
My approach at Still Mountain Counseling is about guiding you to discover and/or enhance your “hidden wholeness”. This is a journey that can involve both a raw encounter with pain and suffering (i.e. depression, anxiety and grief and loss, etc.) as well a trip to the euphoric heights of joy and all that is in between. It is a journey bound for a full embrace of all that life has to offer! It is about living a life of integrity!